Elton John has hit out at impolite TikTok followers after many known as out the Tiny Dancer hitmaker for the state of his kitchen. Final month, the beloved singer-songwriter took to social media to share a hilarious clip about being unable to flee his hit festive observe, Step Into Christmas. Within the video, the 78-year-old is seen frantically opening varied cabinets and drawers in his kitchen because the chart-topping track blasts out at him.  

The video has since garnered a powerful eight million views on the streaming platform, however many eagle-eyed viewers have been fast to criticise the star’s soiled oven. It didn’t take lengthy earlier than the hitmaker shared a follow-up video shutting down their feedback on-line.

He started the video saying: “Howdy folks, it’s Elton John right here. A few weeks in the past, I did some movies on this kitchen about how loopy ‘Step Into Christmas’ was driving me, and it received an unbelievable response, which I used to be fairly startled about.

“However a variety of the response was form of damaging about how soiled my oven was. My oven door, my oven window. And I can guarantee you, I don’t have something soiled on this home. I’ve by no means had something soiled. I’m not a unclean particular person.

“So to show I don’t have something that’s soiled, I’m going to do one thing to indicate you.” In a separate clip, John might be seen donning a pair of pink fluffy Marigolds and scrubbing away at his oven door.

As he cleaned his equipment, he cooed: “Take a look at this, oh! Look, I’ve received the cleanest oven window in Windsor.” His festive traditional, Step Into Christmas, was written by John and his longtime showwriting accomplice, Bernie Taupin, again in 1973.

The track peaked at No. 24 on the UK singles chart however skilled a resurgence in 2019, climbing to No. 8. In December 2023, it was then licensed triple platinum by the British Phonographic Trade and nonetheless stays one of many UK’s hottest Christmas songs.

This yr, it’s at the moment on observe to get again into the UK High 40, together with different immortal Christmas classics corresponding to Mariah Carey’s All I Need For Christmas Is You, The Pogues’ hit Fairytale of New York, and Final Christmas by Wham!

Brandi Carlile, with whom John launched his Grammy-nominated album Who Believes In Angels? earlier this yr, lately shared that they’re planning to launch a brand new Christmas track.

The 44-year-old instructed Press Affiliation: “We preserve speaking about doing a Christmas track collectively, and I like Step Into Christmas, however I additionally love that Christmas track he did with Ed Sheeran a few years in the past, that is a extremely, actually good track too. So I’d love to jot down a Christmas track with Elton, he is received all these songs, you realize, to make this lovely chordal.”